Interactions of EU List of Concern Species

The European Union has a List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern. These are known invasive species with the potential to spread and harm native biodiversity. Information on the interactions of these species with other species in Europe will help us understand the impacts of these species on biodiversity.

This repository mobilises data on species interations from published sources to the Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) database. The species included are primarily those on the Union List of Cencern, however, interacting species and other species mentioned interacting within the publications are also captured.

This repository is cloned from https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/template-dataset. In that repository you will find an explanation of how the repository works. To simply add new interactions, update the tab-delimited file 'interactions.tsv'. A guide to the column contents is here https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/template-dataset#data-format-and-dictionary. Also, add the references you used to the README.md and push both files back to the repository.

🤚 If you have suggestions for additions please raise an issue and include the reference.

Listed species currently covered

1. Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle
2. Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas, 1779)
3. Impatiens glandulifera Royle
4. Myocastor coypus Kerr, 1792
5. Nyctereutes procyonoides (Gray, 1834)
6. Threskiornis aethiopicus (Latham, 1790)
7. Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852

References

• Abbas, A. (1991). Feeding strategy of coypu (Myocastor coypus) in central western France. Journal of Zoology, 224(3), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb06033.x
• Beerling, D. J., & Perrins, J. M. (1993). Impatiens glandulifera Royle (Impatiens roylei Walp.). Journal of Ecology, 81(2), 367-382.
• Clergeau, p., Reeber, S., Bastain, S. & Yesou, P. (2010) Le profil alimentaire de l'Ibis sacré Threskiornis aethiopicus introduit en France métropolitaine : espèce généraliste ou spécialiste ? ; Revue d'écologie, 2010, vol. 65, N°4, pp. 331-342
• Horsley, C. A. (2013). Pollinator-mediated interactions between native plants and the invasive alien Himalayan balsam. University of Leeds.
• Elmeros, M., Mikkelsen, D. M. G., Nørgaard, L. S., Pertoldi, C., Jensen, T. H., & Chriél, M. (2018). The diet of feral raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and native badger (Meles meles) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Denmark. Mammal Research, 63(4), 405-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-018-0372-2
• Gozzi, A. C., Guichon, M. L., Benitez, V. V., & Lareschi, M. (2013). Arthropod parasites of the red‐bellied squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus introduced into Argentina. Medical and veterinary entomology, 27(2), 203-208.
• Kauhala, K., Kaunisto, M., & Helle, E. (1993). Diet of the raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides, in Finland. Zeitschrift für säugetierkunde, 58(3), 129-136. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/192108
• Matsuura, M., & SAKAGAMI, S. F. (1973). A Bionomic Sketch of the Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, a Serious Pest for Japanese Apiculture (With 12 Text-figures and 5 Tables). 北海道大學理學部紀要= JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY Series VI. ZOOLOGY, 19(1), 125-162.
• Mori, E., Menchetti, M., Camporesi, A., Cavigioli, L., Tabarelli de Fatis, K., & Girardello, M. (2019). License to Kill? Domestic Cats Affect a Wide Range of Native Fauna in a Highly Biodiverse Mediterranean Country. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 477. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00477
• Pedreira, P. A., Penon, E., & Borgnia, M. (2017). Descortezado en forestales producido por la ardilla introducida Callosciurus erythraeus (Sciuridae) en Argentina. Bosque (Valdivia), 38(2), 415-420.
• Schmitz, G. (2007). New records of the monophagous herbivors on the neophyte Impatiens glandulifera: Siobla sturmi (Klug, 1817)(Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) and Xanthorhoe biriviata (Borkhausen, 1794)(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Entomologische Zeitschrift mit Insekten-Börse, 117(2), 60-62.
• Sutor, A., Kauhala, K., & Ansorge, H. (2010). Diet of the raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides—a canid with an opportunistic foraging strategy. Acta Theriologica, 55(2), 165-176. https://doi.org/10.4098/j.at.0001-7051.035.2009
• Thompson, J. S. (2008). Pollination biology of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle (Tree-of-Heaven) in the Mid-Atlantic United States (Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Tech). URI:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32586
• Vervoort, A., Cawoy, V., & Jacquemart, A. (2011). Comparative Reproductive Biology in Co-Occurring Invasive and Native Impatiens Species. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172(3), 366-377. https://doi.org/10.1086/658152
• Setoguchi, M. (1990). Food Habits of Red-Bellied Tree Squirrels on a Small Island in Japan. Journal of Mammalogy, 71(4), 570-578. doi:10.2307/1381796
• Suenami, S., Konishi Nobu, M. & Miyazaki, R. Community analysis of gut microbiota in hornets, the largest eusocial wasps, Vespa mandarinia and V. simillima. Sci Rep 9, 9830 (2019).
• Suetsugu, K. (2019). Social wasps, crickets and cockroaches contribute to pollination of the holoparasitic plant Mitrastemon yamamotoi (Mitrastemonaceae) in southern Japan. Plant Biology, 21(1), 176-182.
• Takashi, A., Yoshiya, T., & Hiromitsu, M. (1991). Comparative study of the composition of hornet larval saliva, its effect on behaviour and role of trophallaxis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Comparative Pharmacology, 99(1-2), 79-84.
• Tanner, R.A., Ellison, C.A., Seier, M.K. et al. Puccinia komarovii var. glanduliferae var. nov.: a fungal agent for the biological control of Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera). Eur J Plant Pathol 141, 247–266 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-014-0539-x Zarco, A., Benitez, V. V., Fasola, L., Funes, G., & Guichon, M. L. (2018). Feeding habits of the Asiatic red-bellied squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus introduced in Argentina.